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Keynote Panel: Adding the Web to Communication Services: How Will They All Coexist? :
Gregory W. Bond

Panelists will address topics such as upcoming changes in the telecommunications industry’s technological and business environment, whether VoIP and multimedia services based on SIP and other open standards can co-exist with services based on proprietary protocols (such as Skype and Google+), and the impact of real-time multimedia communications, including social media.

Real-time communication on the Web makes it possible for users to voice and video chat on regular web browsers, while enabling rich multimedia applications to be developed using standardized Javascript APIs and HTML5. It would seem Web RTC can foster an explosive growth of innovative and compelling VoIP services, which users can freely select and customize to their specific needs. The hope is that RTC can finally replicate the successful expansion of web applications. This talk will examine this premise, bust a few myths along the way, and propose some new ideas.